Global terrorism rose 25 percent last year, with a high proportion of terrorism occurring in the Middle East, according to a report by IHS Markit.
“In 2016, there was a notable rise in the number of attacks compared to 2015. We saw more lower-level asymmetric attacks this past year and increases in longer-term conflict zones like eastern Ukraine,” said Matthew Henman, head of the IHS Jane’s Terrorism and Insurgency Centre (JTIC), which commissioned the report.